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  <meta name="author" content="Christopher Allan Webber" />
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<p>
  <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/why-metadata-matters">News</a>
  of
  <a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/government_secr.html">PRISM</a>
  is spreading rapidly, and with realization of
  <a href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008838.html">just how serious this is</a>.
  This isn't the first time that there's been
  the revelation of government spying, but more than ever we're seeing
  clearly how broad and wide government and corporate surveillance are
  growing over our lives.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the trend in computing is to put more and more of your
data under the control of a handful of megacorporations, which makes
total surveillance of your communications easier than ever before.
But people feel trapped.  What kind of alternative do they have?</p>

<p>Well, if you're wondering if there's an alternative to Facebook and
Google Plus to share your photos, we're working on it:</p>

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<p>In addition to building quality, freedom-respecting tools that
people can run themselves, we've begun work to make federation really
happen so servers can hook together in a pleasant, seamless matter,
with privacy work to come after.  If you want to help fund an
alternative to these systems, we can use your help, so
consider <a href="https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=36">donating</a>
if you can.  Every bit helps.</p>

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  <a href="https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=36" class="campaign_donate"><img src="/images/campaign/heart.png" alt="we love you" />Donate...</a>
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<p>There's also more you can do besides donating:</p>

<ul>
  <li>
    <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/">Run a MediaGoblin
    instance</a> for your family and friends.  This is maybe the most
    important thing we could use more of: engaged users of the
    software.
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  <li>
    <a href="/pages/join.html">Join our community</a>,
    <a href="http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/HackingHowto">set up a local instance</a>,
    and help contribute.  We can use all kinds of contributions:
    documentation, code, translations, graphic design, testing and bug
    reporting...
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  <li>
    Help similar projects and run and use that software.  Run your own
    mail and XMPP server (we
    like <a href="http://prosody.im/">Prosody</a>), run
    a <a href="http://pump.io">pump.io</a> instance, or use a friend's
    server, or switch to an organization that you can trust
    like <a href="https://riseup.net/en">RiseUp</a> to do that hosting
    for you.  Don't trust services like Gmail!  <i><b>Update:</b> see
    also the excellent <a href="http://prism-break.org/">Prism Break</a>
    site for a list of free alternatives.</i>
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<p>Our liberties are under more threat than ever before, and the
internet needs your help to keep it free.  Help support user autonomy
and freedom on the net!</p>
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